The configuration below is based off of the bref version, but in testing I needed to add some things, especially for a first time deploy.
Note: Here (for ease) I am adding wildcard permissions to resources ("Resource": "*"), this is not recommended
{
"Statement": [
{
"Action": [
"apigateway:*",
"cloudformation:CancelUpdateStack",
"cloudformation:ContinueUpdateRollback",
"cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
"cloudformation:CreateStack",
"cloudformation:CreateUploadBucket",
"cloudformation:DeleteStack",
"cloudformation:DeleteChangeSet",
"cloudformation:Describe*",
"cloudformation:EstimateTemplateCost",
"cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
"cloudformation:Get*",
"cloudformation:List*",
"cloudformation:UpdateStack",
"cloudformation:UpdateTerminationProtection",
"cloudformation:ValidateTemplate",
"cloudfront:CreateCloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity",
"cloudfront:DescribeFunction",
"cloudfront:DescribeKeyValueStore",
"cloudfront:UpdateDistribution",
"cloudfront:CreateInvalidation",
"cloudfront:CreateFunction",
"cloudfront:DeleteFunction",
"cloudfront:CreateDistribution",
"cloudfront:CreateOriginAccessControl",
"cloudfront:CreateOriginRequestPolicy",
"cloudfront:PublishFunction",
"cloudfront:TagResource",
"cloudfront:Get*",
"cloudfront:List*",
"cloudfront:DeleteDistribution",
"dynamodb:CreateTable",
"dynamodb:DeleteTable",
"dynamodb:DescribeTable",
"dynamodb:DescribeTimeToLive",
"dynamodb:UpdateTimeToLive",
"dynamodb:TagResource",
"ec2:AttachInternetGateway",
"ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
"ec2:CreateInternetGateway",
"ec2:CreateNetworkAcl",
"ec2:CreateNetworkAclEntry",
"ec2:CreateRouteTable",
"ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
"ec2:CreateSubnet",
"ec2:CreateTags",
"ec2:CreateVpc",
"ec2:DeleteInternetGateway",
"ec2:DeleteNetworkAcl",
"ec2:DeleteNetworkAclEntry",
"ec2:DeleteRouteTable",
"ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
"ec2:DeleteSubnet",
"ec2:DeleteVpc",
"ec2:Describe*",
"ec2:DetachInternetGateway",
"ec2:ModifyVpcAttribute",
"ec2:CreateDhcpOptions",
"ec2:DeleteDhcpOptions",
"events:DeleteRule",
"events:DescribeRule",
"events:ListRuleNamesByTarget",
"events:ListRules",
"events:ListTargetsByRule",
"events:PutRule",
"events:PutTargets",
"events:RemoveTargets",
"iam:AttachRolePolicy",
"iam:CreateRole",
"iam:DeleteRole",
"iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
"iam:DetachRolePolicy",
"iam:GetRole",
"iam:PassRole",
"iam:PutRolePolicy",
"iam:TagRole",
"iot:CreateTopicRule",
"iot:DeleteTopicRule",
"iot:DisableTopicRule",
"iot:EnableTopicRule",
"iot:ReplaceTopicRule",
"kinesis:CreateStream",
"kinesis:DeleteStream",
"kinesis:DescribeStream",
"lambda:*",
"logs:CreateLogGroup",
"logs:DeleteLogGroup",
"logs:DescribeLogGroups",
"logs:DescribeLogStreams",
"logs:FilterLogEvents",
"logs:GetLogEvents",
"logs:PutSubscriptionFilter",
"logs:TagResource",
"s3:CreateBucket",
"s3:DeleteBucket",
"s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
"s3:DeleteObject",
"s3:DeleteObjectVersion",
"s3:GetObject",
"s3:GetObjectVersion",
"s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
"s3:ListBucket",
"s3:PutBucketNotification",
"s3:PutBucketPolicy",
"s3:PutBucketTagging",
"s3:PutBucketWebsite",
"s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration",
"s3:PutObject",
"sns:CreateTopic",
"sns:DeleteTopic",
"sns:GetSubscriptionAttributes",
"sns:GetTopicAttributes",
"sns:ListSubscriptions",
"sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
"sns:ListTopics",
"sns:SetSubscriptionAttributes",
"sns:SetTopicAttributes",
"sns:Subscribe",
"sns:Unsubscribe",
"sqs:createqueue",
"sqs:getqueueattributes",
"sqs:tagqueue",
"sqs:deletequeue",
"states:CreateStateMachine",
"states:DeleteStateMachine",
"states:TagResource"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*"
}
],
"Version": "2012-10-17"
}